She groaned, her lungs gasping for air as she looked at me, water trailing off the corner of her eyes. She stammered…blood oozing from the side of her lips.
“Mira…” I heard her say in a low whisper.
“Guard the seal!” she said, “Safe… keep the seal. "Luca, keep him—” she sighed, releasing the last air before her eyes rolled to the back of her head, closing shut and, just like that, she was gone.
I screamed in pain, clinging her body to my chest tightly. I cried uncontrollably.
Luca heard me scream and turned to look. It was then he realized it was his mother. He saw me crying over her with her body in my arms.
He was traumatized and weak, his sword slipped through his hands and fell to the ground and that’s when the enemy army overpowered him.
I didn’t realize I was screaming until my
